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But the wind worried Moore, 80. At one point, he said, he went outside and looked anxiously at the large pine tree swaying near the boys’ bedroom. Later, he said, he called the boys into his room, which doesn’t have windows facing trees.

Shortly after that, he heard a boom and a crack.

“It was like a bomb exploding with a big boom, and there was a cracking sound,” he said.

The tree landed against the house but didn’t go into the room.

“It was a miracle it didn’t hit the house full force because if it did, it would have killed all of us,” he said.